Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Panama and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Livin' Joy to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Mo-Dettes. All the underground hits.
All AZ tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gun Club,
Rotary Connection,
Kool Moe Dee,
E-Dancer,
The Walker Brothers,
Dead Boys,
Cymande,
L. Decosne,
Steve Hackett,
The Residents,
Faust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Sonics,
Harry Pussy,
the Swans,
Angry Samoans,
EPMD,
Roger Hodgson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Interpol,
Flipper,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hoover,
The Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
Alton Ellis,
Banda Bassotti,
Q and Not U,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Thee Headcoats,
Soul Sonic Force,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Blancmange,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vladislav Delay,
Shoche,
Wolf Eyes,
KRS-One,
Masters at Work,
Mantronix,
Curtis Mayfield,
Jandek,
Arab on Radar,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kerri Chandler,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
ABBA,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Chris & Cosey,
The Tremeloes,
the Bar-Kays,
The Martian,
Brothers Johnson,
Half Japanese,
Can, Can, Can, Can.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.